The Yankee and Cowboy War: Conspiracies from Dallas to Watergate

384 Pages·1977·5.969 MB·English

by  Carl Oglesby

“DALLAS AND WATERGATE ARE CONCRETE LINKS IN A CHAIN
OF OMINOUS EVENTS... A HIDDEN DRAMA OF COUP AND
COUNTERCOUP WHICH REPRESENTS THE LIFE OF AN INNER
POWER SPHERE, AN ‘INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT,’ CAPABLE OF
ANY ACT, SETTING ITSELF ABOVE THE LAW AND BEYOND
MORAL RULE: A CLANDESTINE AMERICAN STATE.”
—from The Yankee and Cowboy War
No writer of fiction could have conjured the nightmare
events of our recent past. Only an entirely new way of
looking at them could make sense out of what on the
surface seems an insane pattern of violence, villainy and
horror.
The Yankee and Cowboy War provides the approach and
the evidence we need to understand what is happening in
America. We urge you to read it—if you have the nerve to
take the naked truth.
“The most readable book on conspiracies and assassina­
tions 1 have read and also the most stimulating. I think
Oglesby is one of our first-rate political writers, skilled,
always interesting, and with a rare gift for making
political theory as lucid and exciting as a good narrative.”
—Norman Mailer

★★★★★★★★★
Conspiracies from
Dallas to Watergate
and Beyond
★★★★★★★★★★
CARL OGLESBY
A BERKLEY MEDALLION BOOK
published by
BERKLEY PUBLISHING CORPORATION
To my mother
Copyright® 1976, 1977, by Carl Oglesby
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources
for permission to quote from published material:
Carroll Quigley for excerpts of his book Tragedy and Hope,
copyright © 1966 by Carroll Quigley.
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward for excerpts of their
book All the President's Men, copyright © 1974 by Carl
Bernstein and Bob Woodward.
Walter Cronkite for permission to quote from his March
1974 interview with Robert Vesco, copyright © 1974 by CBS
Evening News with Walter Cronkite.
Doubleday & Company, Inc. for use of excerpts from Just
About Everybody versus Howard Hughes by Dávid B. Tinnin.
Copyright © 1973 by David B. Tinnin. Reprinted by permission
of Doubleday A Company, Inc.
Andrew St. George for permission to quote from his article
“The Cold War Comes Home,** copyright © 1973 by Harper's
magazine. Reprinted from the November 1973 issue by special
permission.
Bernard Barker and Eugenio Martinez for permission to use
excerpts of their article “Mission Impossible,** copyright © 1974
by Harper's magazine.
Acknowledgments
Many people helped. Special thanks for the special help
from Bob Katz, Ann Koutso, Toby Kranitz, and Jim
Kostman.
Contents
i
CLANDESTINE AMERICA
1. Yankees and Cowboys: A Perspective on
the Dallas-Watergate Decade 1
2. Clandestine America—Three Sources 14
II
DALLAS
3. “The Whole Bay of Pigs Thing” 47
4. Dealey Plaza 80
5. 1968 161
III
WATERGATE
6. The Hughes Connection 173
7. The Watergate Plane Crash 227
8. McCord, Double Agent 268
IV
NEITHER YANKEE NOR COWBOY
9. Who Killed JFK? 319
APPENDIX: The Official Theory of the Watergate
Plane Crash 325
NOTES 337
INDEX 365
Preface to the Berkley Edition
The apperance of this new çdition of The Yankee and
Cowboy War confronts me with the temptation to update
the book across the board. Since publication. Carter has
become president, the JFK and King assassination cases
have been reopened by the Congress, there has been more
heavy commotion within the Hughes empire, and accounts
published by such Watergate heroes as John Dean (Blind
Ambition, 1976) and Fred Thompson {At That Point in
Time, 1976) have further strengthened the view that there is
some important, still-concealed connection between Water­
gate and the CIA. These matters tie directly to the themes
explored in this book. But since a general update would still
be premature, I decided to restrict my textual changes to a
few corrections of fact and adjustments of style, except for
the insertion of one new passage, a Yankee-Cowboy analysis
of the coming of President Carter, at the end of chapter 8.
This addition allows me to bring to a fuller close my
argument that Watergate, like Dallas, was a coup d*etat,
culminating in the installation of a new president and a new
executive elite.
CO.
March 1977